Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance

Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance
Film poster
Directed by Gregory Hatanaka
Produced by
Written by
  • Rich Mallery
  • T. L. Young
  • Gregory Hatanaka
Based on Samurai Cop by
Amir Shervan
Starring
Music by Toshiyuki Hiraoka
Cinematography Chris Faulisi
Edited by B.N. Lindstrom
Production
company
CineRidge Entertainment
Distributed by Cinema Epoch
Release date
  • October 9, 2015 (2015-10-09)
Running time
 93 minutes
Language English

Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance is a 2015 film directed by Gregory Hatanaka and starring Mathew Karedas and Mark Frazer reprising their original roles. It is the sequel to Samurai Cop, and its budget was raised by Kickstarter[1] and Indiegogo.[2]

Plot

In 1991, after taking down the Katana crime organization, Detective Joe Marshall plans to settle down with his wife Jennifer when she is suddenly murdered at a park. Twenty-five years later, Fuj Fujiyama has reorganized Katana Inc., but they are in the middle of a gang war with the Shinjuku and Ginza clans. He informs his Vice President Doggé Sakamoto and subordinates that the war has awakened Joe, and they must defeat him in order to secure the future of the clan.

Following the murder of a senator at the hands of Katana agent Hera and the Katana's massacre of the Shinjuku at a night club, Detective Frank Washington is led to a secret compound 400 miles away from Los Angeles and reunites with Joe, who had been in hiding for decades. After dispatching a group of ninjas at the compound, Joe reluctantly agrees to once again team up with Frank after being told that the case of his wife's murder will be reopened for his vengeance. After being reinstated as a detective, Joe proposes to set up a surveillance on the warring clans. At the same time, he develops a relationship with a brunette woman named Milena Roberts, but cannot help that she reminds him of Jennifer.

During a surveillance mission, Joe enters a nightclub, where he is suddenly greeted by a blonde Milena before a shootout between the Katana and the Ginza ensues. One night, Frank reveals to Joe that Milena is not who she says she is. The next day, Frank is suspended due to his failure to stop the war while Joe is informed that the case is now under the jurisdiction of FBI Agent Carter, who is actually the Ginza's new leader. Joe and Frank decide to work above the law to take down all the clans at the secret hideout known as "The Complex". Joe storms through The Complex and encounters the Ginza clan before Carter is suddenly gunned down by Mola Ram, leader of the Yick Lung clan. He kills Fujiyama and his henchwomen, then defeats Doggé in a sword fight. Linton Kitano, the new leader of the Shinjuku clan, battles Joe and is swiftly taken down, but confesses to Joe that he was the one who murdered Jennifer 25 years ago. Linton prepares to commit seppuku, but Milena intervenes, revealing that she is his sister and they used Joe to infiltrate the Katana and help the Shinjuku become the only clan in the country. A disillusioned Joe leaves The Complex and parts ways with Frank and Detective Higgins before Lauren Kimura, a former Katana henchwoman, proposes to join forces with him.

Cast

Production

Robert Z'Dar, who played Yamashita in the first film, was to reprise his role in the sequel but died during production and his scenes were never shot. The film is dedicated in memory of him and the first film's creator, Amir Shervan.

The feature documentary Enter the Samurai, which chronicles the making of Samurai Cop 2, was released on July 22, 2016.

References

  1. ↑ "SAMURAI COP 2: Deadly Vengeance". Kickstarter. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "SAMURAI COP 2: Deadly Vengeance". Indiegogo. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
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